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AndyinWI 
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 Topic: Some tractor pulling pics from last weekend
Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 7:41pm |
My little brother and I went to a tractor pull in Lone Rock, WI last weekend, we took a D-17 of each fuel, gas, diesel, and LP. We didn't bring home any money but we had fun!
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Allis Fields
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Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 9:07pm |
I didn't stay too long Did any of you d17 place?
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Dave(inMA)
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Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 10:44pm |
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Looks like you had a good time - counts as much as winning.
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Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 10:49pm |
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Which one did best?
Looks like a big load on the trailer. The last tractor looks to be setting on the ramps, how did you load and unload?
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AndyinWI
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Posted: 10 Jul 2010 at 11:22pm |
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The gas tractor did the best, it has a gleaner E motor with radial tires full of fluid, in my opinion the weight is most effective in the tires than hanging on a weight bracket, but thats my two cents, the diesel had plenty of power just couldn't get the traction. The LP wanted to pull to the left and i ended up out of bounds, i had a good pull going though. It was a big Load! Especially on my dads gas pickup, that 5.4 was not made to tote around 26,000 lbs. I had a fuel tank in the back of my diesel pickup for work so i couldn't use that. I drove the middle tractor up tight against the first tractor and with the lp drove tight up against that one there was just enough room to flip the ramps, then backed them up to even out the load a bit. It was a little bit of screwing around but we were able to get them there. Now i am back in Utah for work, but it sure was nice to come home for a few days and have some fun with my orange "stuff".
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Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 7:26am |
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Andy, did you use the stock drawbars to pull with? I took a friends suggestion and took the snap coupler bell off of my 45D and made a solid drawbar and shortened it up a bit and it made a world of difference when I went pulling. I think I probably shortened it 6" from stock and it is still plenty far back for our local pulling rules.
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Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 11:43am |
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Just curious with gas d-17 what gear did you run in -----1 st on the high or low side---or 2nd on the high or low side --glad to see some d-17 on pulling pics ---doesnt look like that many are pulled or just not talked about --thx
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Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 2:06pm |
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We were in the antique class so everyone had to run in first gear, we chose to run in Hi range and didn't run out of power with any of them, we still do a lot of our farming with these old girls so the drawbars are in stock form.
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Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 5:28pm |
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i believe you could have used some weight on the front tractor pulling is about maintaining hitch height. I also believe you were running out of power. If you wasnt running out of power the tractor would have kept the front end down and maintained its speed to the end of the track.
Edited by mlpankey - 11 Jul 2010 at 5:33pm
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AndyinWI
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Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 6:33pm |
We were able to put a little weight on the front of the gas tractor, but we were limited on what we could put on because of the tractors being so close to the weight of the class. the front end of the diesel and LP never really came off the ground, the diesel spun out, and i couldn't bring the lp back after started to head out of bounds. We are considering making the gas one a dedicated pulling tractor so that we can get a little more serious about it. A month ago at the blacktop pull in town that tractor took first in the 6000 lb class with no weights at all. It beat alot of tractors that have way more power and money spent on them.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 12:32am |
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Andy, where are you working out here in Utah? Kip
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Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 7:18am |
I left the fluid in too as I use my tractor all the time. You'll find that long bar short bar tires aren't the best pulling tires. Old Co-op or "Firestone Field And Road" seem to do the best for me. Stay on sticky tracks with those tires. D17 has all the power you need in a stock pull. The short tires will do better on a sticky track.
I pulled all the way up to 8,500# class with my bone stock D17 and never ran out of power in 1st high. The front will come up even with lots of power so you need weight out in front. On a sticky track, once you find your sweet spot for weighting when you jump from say 6,500# class to 7,500# put about 1/3 third of the added weight on the front end bracket. (Make a bracket) Add to the front about 300# to 350# for every thousand pounds added to tractor.
You should also make to wheelie bars. Allis or Deere weights hang on the platform steps on each side real well. Make sure you have the bracket that stiffens the step that goes from the step to the fender bracket to handle the added weight. You can make an easy bracket under the axle tube. There is a threaded hole on each side of the axle bearing dust cap. Just make a heavy L-shaped bracket with one bolt. Good place to hang weight. Not easy to hang it though.
Make sure you adjust you tire pressure to squat some. Take a look at your tire tracks after you pull each time to see if you are too low pressured. The tire will buckle in the center of it's track and that will be visible on the dirt. It takes some experience to get things just right. Take notes at each track so next year you can adjust. Every track is different and weather changes things too from year to year.
I stay away from slippery gravel or crushed rock tracks with 28" tires. It just tears them up too much. Another thing, on a stock D17 you have enough power to use your throttle to hop yourself down the track when your front end gets too light. When the front end comes up drop your throttle about half, too low can stall out, as the front end is about half way on the way down crack the throttle open and as the front end climbs up lower the throttle again and so on. You'll get the hang of it after a couple attempts. I've gained at least 25 feet doing just that otherwise when your front gets too high you lose traction. For stock tractors the D17 is one of the few with the torque and quick governor to make that work. I guarantee a two banger Deere or Farsmall 450 won't be able to do that with stock parts. Maybe a 450 with an after market governor, as many do have, can do it but I've never witnessed it.
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